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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
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Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
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Books are the best friends you can have they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
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Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
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There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.
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Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.
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There is comfort in routine.
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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
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The power of an attitude is amazing
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She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
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Thou mayest rule over sin.
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Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.
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And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.
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To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
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To the heavens on the wings of a pig.
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